Miles Quotes - page 6

When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style. (Freddie Hubbard)
You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe. View quote
Frank Shorter
I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time. View quote
Frank Shorter
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. View quote
Frank Yerby
Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays. View quote
Gerry Mulligan
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing. View quote
Jan Garbarek
My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive. View quote
Jeri Ryan
I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth. View quote
Jill Clayburgh
Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play. View quote
Jon English
I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day. View quote
Jonathan Ames
I was completely unhealthy, obese, so I committed to running three miles every morning for six months and following a strict diet, and 100 pounds came off. (Josh Young)
Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say. View quote
Ken Burns
The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz
We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio. View quote
Ken Blackwell
The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon. View quote
Leonard Slatkin
I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.' View quote
Laura Mvula
I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth. View quote
Lee Trevino
On other shows, guys can't wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus. View quote
Martin Milner
Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year - a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently aren't required to do so. View quote
Matt Gonzalez
Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself. View quote
Michael Flatley
Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open. (Miroslav Vitous)
I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do. View quote
Muddy Waters
Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch. View quote
Peter Tork
But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here. View quote
Patty Hearst
I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown! View quote
Paul Prudhomme